The fast pace of today’s world can make people feel frantic and disconnected from experiences. It has become too easy to focus on the expectations of others and succumb to fear-based motivations. Do simple tools exist to make us feel grounded and bring us back to peace-of-mind? Or, does everything have to be a struggle?
To understand how people can reclaim calm in this tumultuous world, Harvesting Happiness Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with meditation teacher and award-winning writer and journalist, Dr. Danny Penman.
Danny shares the latest neuroscience research findings and the meditations in his latest book, Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World, which he co-authored with Dr. Mark Williams. He describes Feeling Tone tools that help reduce stress, anger, and depression and increase our peacemaking abilities.
*This show originally aired in December 2023.
Dr. Danny Penman — The Peacemaking People:
- Neuroscience shows that we create our own reality. {2:31}
- Why do so many people suffer mental distress? {7:15}
- In the book, Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World, the mindfulness practices are simple and practical. {10:04}
- How mindfulness techniques help curb anxiety, stress, and depression and help us feel grounded. {21:26}
- Simple interventions to create mindfulness and sanity. {24:11}
Meet Our Guest:
Dr. Danny Penman is a meditation teacher, award-winning writer, and journalist. He is co-author of the two-million-selling Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World. He has received journalism awards from the Humane Society of the United States and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In 2014, he won the British Medical Association’s Best Book Award for You Are Not Your Pain. Danny’s books are now used in healthcare systems around the world to help people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, and chronic pain. They have been translated into more than 30 languages.
“We can control how we reframe and process information.” - Lisa Cypers Kamen
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